Joined on 03/02/09
Fast and Insanely quiet
Pros: Built a brand new computer for the first time. This card runs as fast or faster than reference cards, but the catch is, it is super quiet. Literally makes no noise at all. I run furmark and I can't even hear it spool up. You can't beat XFX warranty.
Cons: It's so quiet I thought it was broken?
Overall Review: When installing make sure you disable windows 7 auto installing of drivers and then remove the generic vga driver, restart and install AMD drivers. To other first-time builders that might not be obvious. My Windows Experience Score went from 1.0 with generic vga to 7.8 with AMD drivers. I plan to crossfire these for a quiet super powerful build.
Not very good
Pros: It worked for about 3 days perfectly.
Cons: The light never worked. After 3 days it only worked with the cover off the case. See other thoughts for more info.
Overall Review: I have a Silverstone Fortress FT02B case which has a rotated motherboard and all the slots face upwards. Well to keep things neat, the top has a cover made of plastic and metal mesh. As a result the antenna is beneath a metal mesh during operation. I did not think about it before I purchased this adapter, but when I installed it everything worked fine so I thought nothing of it. After 3 days the only way I got any signal at all was to remove the wire mesh cover. With cover off I got 2-3 bars out of 5, which is exactly what I got in the first 3 days. I RMAed this adapter and purchased one with an external antenna and now I get 5 bars all the time. The new adapter was more expensive, but I absolutely needed it. The TP-Link would work fine for someone who has a normal case and is relatively close to their wireless router (mine is in basement, and I am on second floor).
Works Great
Pros: I have had this providing internet for my xbox 360 for over a year now. I have it set to receive the wifi from my uverse router and send it by wire to the 360. I believe I have DD-WRT installed to have that function. It gets a better and more reliable signal than anything else in the house. I can watch Netflix in HD on just a 3 mbps wifi connection with other people surfing the net at the same time.
Cons: The stock firmware is useless. Install DD-WRT or tomato to unlock full functionality.
Quiet and Quiet
Pros: It is easy to work with given all the cables that are included. Comes in a beautiful box, and even has a bag for all the cables. It is super quiet.
Cons: I really have nothing to say here.
Overall Review: Hooked it up and everything runs, even with an overclocked i5-2500k processor and AMD 6870 CF.
Works Well
Pros: It was easy to apply and seems to work well enough.
Cons: None that I found.
Overall Review: This is my first thermal paste ever so I have nothing to compare to really.
Huge and Quiet
Pros: This thing is super quiet, to the point that I can't even hear it. It cools my Core i5-2500k very effectively, keeping load temps under 50 C even with OC.
Cons: I do have to say that this cooler is huge and near impossible to install if you are trying to do it alone. With someone helping me it was a challenge.
Overall Review: This is the first cooler I have ever owned, but installation instructions were hard to figure out at first. Took me about 30 minutes to figure out how to mount it.